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Cascades From Early Adolescent Impulsivity to Late Adolescent Antisocial Personality Disorder and Alcohol Use Disorder
Abstract Purpose The behavioral disinhibition model (BDM) posits that a liability toward impulsivity evident by early adolescence underlies the coemergence of antisocial behavior and alcohol use (i.e., problem behaviors) in early-adolescence to mid-adolescence, but that the subsequent development of these problem behaviors (rather than impulsivity itself) predicts the emergence of antisocial personality disorder (APD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD) in late adolescence.
Disentangling longitudinal relations between youth cannabis use, peer cannabis use, and conduct problems: developmental cascading links to cannabis use disorder - Defoe - - Addiction - Wiley Online Library
Introduction More youth use cannabis than smoke cigarettes in the United States 1, and in other parts of the world cannabis use has become almost as regular as tobacco use among adolescents and young adults 2. In the United States, many states and jurisdictions have relaxed laws against possession of small amounts of this drug, and more states are considering taking a similar course.
Disentangling longitudinal relations between youth cannabis use, peer cannabis use, and conduct problems: developmental cascading links to cannabis use disorder - Defoe - 2019 - Addiction - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aims To determine whether cannabis use during adolescence can increase risk not only for cannabis use disorder (CUD) but also for conduct problems, potentially mediated by exposure to peers who use cannabis. Design, Setting, Participants Longitudinal study analyzing four waves of longitudinal data from 364 racially and socio‐economically diverse, urban, US community youth (at baseline: Mage = 13.51 (0.95); 49.1% female).
Bedtime media use and sleep: evidence for bidirectional effects and associations with attention control in adolescents
Abstract Objective/Design Bedtime media use has been associated with poor sleep and attention difficulties among adolescents, but much of this research has been cross-sectional, limiting current understanding of directionality of effects.
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